Fireball lights up the Midwestern sky

CNN is reporting that a giant fireball was visible in the night sky across a number of states in the Midwest yesterday. It was moving from west to east and visible for about 15 minutes the news organization reports. It ultimately broke up and disappeared, but not before people reported hearing sonic booms in the area.

The best guess of NASA and the National Weather Service is that the fireball was a meteorite glowing from the friction of the Earth’s atmosphere. That is just a guess though as the object wasn’t retrieved and a crash site wasn’t reported to have been found.